Afghanistan Times

By Akhtar M.Nikzad-KABUL: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) and the Embassy of Republic of China launched a joint seminar about initiatives and roadmaps for building the Silk Road here in Kabul on Sunday. Deputy Foreign Minister, Hekmat Khalil Karzai said that if One Belt One Road [Silk Road] project …

By Farhad Naibkhel-KABUL: Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) said Sunday that 10,000 children with heart disease enlisted in ARCS for treatment. “10,000 with the disease of holes in their hearts were registered,” head of the ARCS Fatemeh Gilani said, asking the people and nongovernmental organs to help ARCS financially to …

AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces in the past 24 hours killed at least seventy eight Taliban militants during several military operations across the country, the Ministry of Defense said Sunday in a statement. The Afghan National Security and Defense Forces in the past 24 hours, launched several operations against Taliban insurgents …

AT-KABUL: Fifty-two passengers died Sunday and 73 others wounded in a traffic accident on the Kandahar-Kabul highway in Ghazni province, police and health officials said. Two busses and an oil tanker burst into flames in a head-on collision in Bozak area of the Muqur district, provincial spokesman Jawid Salangi told …

KABUL: Six Taliban prisoners, who were already sentenced to death penalty by Afghan courts, were executed on Sunday in capital Kabul, officials said. The Taliban members were involved in terrorist attacks and killing of incident people and were executed today after their death sentences were signed by President, Ashraf Ghani, …

MoE will fill 13,000 vacant posts: Press Dept. AT-KABUL: Deputy Minister for Youth at Ministry of Information and Culture, Kamal Sadat, urged the government to fill the vacant positions through vacancy advertisements in order to provide jobs to the unemployed youth. “According to reports there are over 25,000 vacant positions …

By Akhtar M. Nikzad-KABUL: Members of the Wolesi Jirga on Saturday warned that political interference in Turkmenistan-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TUTAP) power transmission project would create crisis in the country. Legislators asked the government to deal with all those with iron hands who are sabotaging the project. They said that the power transmission …

AT-KABUL: Four members of the same family were killed and one another injured in a roadside bomb in Shajoy district of southern Zabul province, local official said on Saturday. District Chief, Wazir Mohammad Jawadi, said that the roadside bomb went off in Tazi area of the district on late Friday. …

AT-KABUL: Forty three Taliban fighters were killed and 15 others wounded in different crackdowns within the past 24 hours, said officials. In a press release issued here, Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that Afghan National Army (ANA) in collaboration with Afghan National Police (ANP) and National Directorate of Security (NDS) …

By Mansoor Faizy-KABUL: At least 29 Taliban militants were killed after the Afghan security forces repulsed their coordinated attack on a police check posts in Ghaziabad district of Kunar province on Saturday morning, provincial official said. In addition 30 Taliban insurgents received injuries in the attack. According to officials, the …